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I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Really
Byproduct
Discarded
Anatomy
Entire
Large
Personality
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Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton
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